Quotes About Fallibility

We are all human, and all do wrong.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

To sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be able to fall short in action, which is repugnant to omnipotence.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

The reason so many well-considered ideas appear laughable in retrospect is that people involuntarily assume that whatever we believe and prioritize now will continue to be believed and prioritized later, even though that almost never happens. It's a mistake that never stops being made.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible.

None of us has become perfect (Phil. 3:12). None of us does everything right. None of us is so wise that we always speak the right word or so strong that we always do the right thing. Remembering this keeps us humble.

Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

If you're not perfect, don't expect the other guys to be perfect.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.